Sanitary beer-cooler.



A. T. MAHR & G. MILLER.

SANITARY BEER COOLER. APPLICATION FILED DEG. 26, 1913.

1, 127,057. I Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

WITNESSES INVENTORS A TTOR/VEVS THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOw-LITHQ.WASHING) ii s c, *rEs par ALBERT '1. MAHR, OF BINGI-IAMTON, AND CHARLESMILLER, OF OLEAN, NEW YORK.

SANITARY BEER-COOLER.

7 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, ALBERT "I MAHR andCHARLES MILLER, citizens of the'United States, residing, ALBERT T. MAHRat Binghamton, in the county of Broome and State of New York, andCHARLES MILLER at Olean, in the county of Cattaraugus and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SanitaryBeer-Coolers, of which the following is a specification. I

Our invention relates to an improvement in sanitary beer coolers, inwhich beer or other liquor, as it passes from the kegs to the outlet fortrade use, is cooled quickly and in a sanitary manner, and it has forits object to rovide a means for readily cooling liquor and at the sametime readily and quickly cool the different parts of the coolingreceptacle, and toprovide a means whereby the interior of the coolingreceptacle can be easily reached for cleansing and washing to remove allunsanitary elements, for it is to be noted that when beer or otherliquor stands in a cooling receptacle or passes through those usuallyprovided it leaves a sediment which renders the receptacle soon impureand unsanitary, and which has a de teriorating effect upon the liquor.

With these objects in view our invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafterfully described and pointed out in the claims, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of one of ourdevices in an ice box with a view shown of the box in cross section.Fig. 2 is a front view of a set of four of our devices in an ice boxwith a View of the ice box taken in cross section.

The same reference characters denote like parts in each of the severalfigures of the drawing.

In carrying out our invention we provide the parallel tubes A. B. Tube Ahas mounted within it at the bottom the screw cap C, and from whichprojects the handle support 2, and tube B has mounted within it at thebottom the screw cap D from which projects the handle or head 2. Betweentubes A and B there extends the connecting tube E similar in size totubes A and B. Mounted in the top of tube B is the screw cap F. Mountedon screw cap F we have the union G, and mounted in union G weSpecification of Letters Patent.

of our devices, as shown in Fig. 1.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

Application filed December 26, 1913. Serial No. 808,690;

have the intake pipe II. Tube A has the curved neck I, to which isattached the union J, into which is let or attached the outlet pipe orfaucet K. It will be noted that for the purpose of holding the flow ofthe beer or liquor in the container received through the intake pipe H,that tube B is flattened so as to produce the flattened surface orportion L, while tube A is reduced in size as it approaches to the neckI.

In the operation of our device we unite within an ice box M, a set offour or lYlRIfE e surround the same with ice packed in the usual mannerbetween the two. "We open the intake pipe H, and the beer or otherliquor flowing in passes through cap F and into tube 13 and against theflattened surface L, then through connecting tube E into tube A and outthrough neck I and through the union J and pipe or faucet K.

When we desire to cleanse the device,having shut off the inflow, wedisconnect the intake pipe II and remove the tubes. Then removing cap Fand cap D of tube B, and cap C of tube A, the interior of the tubes canbe readily cleansed by means of brushes or other means and all particlesof impurities removed. Having thus cleansed the tubes we again remountthe caps, form the connection with the union, place the devices in theice box and when the ice is applied the device is ready for use.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and for whichwe desire Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In a beer cooler, an ice receptacle, a series of double tubes mountedwithin the same, each series consisting of two vertical parallel tubes,a connecting tube between each set of parallel tubes, the one tube, anintake tube, the other tube the outlet tube, a screw cap closing thelower end of each tube, a screw cap mounted on the upper end of eachintake tube and a coupling carried by each of said last mentioned caps,the outlet tube being of greatly reduced diameter at its upper end, the,intake tube having two flattened opposite side surfaces and connectingmeans between the intake tube and the supply.

2. A beer cooler, comprising an inlet tube, and an outlet tubecommunicating with each other near their lower ends, the two tubes Q I abetween them, the outlet tube greatly decreasing in diameter toward itsupperor discharge end, the inlet'tube being provided with two opposingflat and broadened side walls, a supplv pipe communicating with the"inlet tube and an ice receptacle sur- I rounding both the'inlet andoutlet tubes.

v Copies of this patentmay be obtained for 8. In a beer cooler, an inlettube, and an outlet tube communicating with each other near their lowerends; the inlet tube being provided with opposing flat Walls, whichCO'I1"GI,Q, 6 toward'each other and provide a restricted passage withinthe inlet tube pthe outlet tube greatly decreasing in diameter towardits discharge end, and an ice recep- 15 mole surrounding the tubes. Intestimony whereof we have afiixed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses. I

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent, v Washington,13.0.

